Financial Statements: What AreThey?

You do your bookkeeping, regularly recording transactions, but are you getting useful information back? In this workshop we'll review the most common financial statements, where the numbers come from, what they mean and how they can help you manage your business. We'll also look at some common ratios and ways to assess how your business is doing.

Conquering Business Money Management

Marine Trade Center - 2 Portland Fish Pier - Portland, Maine

This workshop offers an opportunity to explore how your approach to money matters can either help or hamper the success of your business. Topics include debunking money myths, separating business and personal finances, determining creditworthiness, and providing valuable tips for changing behaviors around business money management.

This workshop is part of the Women Business Owners Empowerment Program, and is free to participants.

Growing Pains: When and How to Hire

Growing Pains: When and How to Hire is part of the Maine Women's Business Empowerment Program and is designed for women who have been in business for at least six months and who want to boost their financial confidence and skills.

Hiring your first employee without sufficient groundwork can be a real challenge--financially, legally and emotionally. This workshop provides you with an overview of the work you will need to do before, during and after your first hire so that you can minimize trouble and maximize productivity. Practical advice will be provided on crunching your numbers to make sure you can afford to hire; understanding legal issues that can come up; processing required forms and paperwork; developing job descriptions; increasing your skills as an interviewer; and orienting, training and evaluating your new employee.

You can participate in this workshop online either live in the virtual classroom, or you can access a recorded, self-paced version of the workshop where you ask the instructor questions in a discussion board/bulletin board format, or you can do both! The self-paced online option for this workshop is open to enrollment and participation for a two week period following each live workshop. To participate in this online workshop, you must have a computer on which you can download software (Windows 2000 or OS10 or above) with access to the internet (dialup is fine) and speakers or a computer headset/microphone. Generally you cannot take this workshop using a public access computers (e.g., libraries, Career Centers).

Quickbooks: Getting Started

Getting Started with Quickbooks is part of the Maine Women's Business Empowerment Program and is designed for women who have been in business for at least six months and who want to boost their financial confidence and skills.

This online workshop presents the basics of using QuickBooks Financial Software for your small business. We will review the various QuickBooks options available, outline what business information you will need to collect before you begin and define the process for getting started. Please note, this is not a hands-on lab.

You can participate in this workshop online either live in the virtual classroom, or you can access a recorded, self-paced version of the workshop where you ask the instructor questions in a discussion board/bulletin board format, or you can do both! The self-paced online option for this workshop is open to enrollment and participation for a two week period following each live workshop. To participate in this online workshop, you must have a computer on which you can download software (Windows 2000 or OS10 or above) with access to the internet (dialup is fine) and speakers or a computer headset/microphone. Generally you cannot take this workshop using a public access computers (e.g., libraries, Career Centers).

Keeping Your Business Records

Marine Trade Center - 2 Portland Fish Pier - Portland, Maine.

This workshop covers basic information that every business owner should know about record-keeping: what to keep and why, how long to keep it and what can be done to protect important data. We will also present basic bookkeeping concepts and options. There will be plenty of time for questions and sharing experiences.

This workshop is part of the Maine Women Business Owners Empowerment Program and is offered to participants free of charge.

When It Makes Sense to Borrow

When It Makes Sense to Borrow explores the right time to borrow money for your business and how to go about it. Topics include assessing your business financial needs, key things lenders look for, some hints on filling out a loan application, the application process, and some resources available.

You can participate in this workshop online either live in the virtual classroom, or you can access a recorded, self-paced version of the workshop where you ask the instructor questions in a discussion board/bulletin board format, or you can do both! The self-paced online option for this workshop is open to enrollment and participation for a two week period following each live workshop. To participate in this online workshop, you must have a computer on which you can download software (Windows 2000 or OS10 or above) with access to the internet (dialup is fine) and speakers or a computer headset/microphone. Generally you cannot take this workshop using a public access computers (e.g., libraries, Career Centers).

This workshop is part of the Maine Women's Business Empowerment Program.